Missing Mobile woman possibly spotted on DIP; family says she's 'in a bad state of mind'

View full sizeFlyers have been put up in Mobile, Ala., concentrated around Dauphin Island Parkway, where 44-year-old Kathy Denise Inman was last seen on Friday, May 24, 2013. (Photo courtesy of Kim Turner)

Inman's sister, Kim Turner, believes she may still be in the
area. On Thursday, she said Inman was sighted at a Chevron gas station on
Dauphin Island Parkway. Inman's boyfriend will review footage from the gas
station to determine whether there is any merit to the sighting.

Turner hasn't seen her sister since March, when Inman was
living with her.

"She's in a bad state of mind," Turner said,
adding that her sister is "full of fear and panic."

Inman has been diagnosed with a mood disorder. She is
prescribed medication to help treat her anxiety, according to documents from
Mobile County Probate Court.

The medication, along with Inman's ID, cell phone and money,
were left behind when she disappeared.

Records show Inman's mother, Betty Erwin, has filed four
petitions to have her daughter committed since 2004. The most recent attempt
was filed on May 23, three days after Inman tried to jump out of Erwin's moving
car and one day before Inman was last seen.

Erwin drove her daughter to the University of South Alabama
Medical Center for treatment, where she agreed to be voluntarily committed to
EastPointe Hospital in Daphne on May 20.

She was discharged two days later and placed into a boarding
home. According to court documents, she ran away from the home and walked to a
nearby Waffle House, where she called 911 on herself.

Although police say Inman was last seen at the Waffle House
on Dauphin Island Parkway, Turner said she didn't see any sign of her sister in
surveillance footage from the restaurant.

Turner said Inman has a tattoo on her left hand of three roses
and the name "James."

Anyone with information on her disappearance can call MPD at
251-208-7211.